Sewing-machine cabinet.



Patented Mar. I3, 1900. A. C. ABRAMSON &. W; PERSON.

SEWING MACHINE CABINET.

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SEWING MACHINE CABINET.

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ALFRED C. ABRAMSON AND \VILLIAM PERSON, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

SEWING-MACHINE CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,379, dated March 13, 1900.

Application filed September 2, 1899. Serial No. 729,321. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALFRED G. ABRAM- SON and \VILLIAM PERSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of W'innebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing-Machine Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct a cabinet for sewing-machines in which the machine has a vertical lift and in which the front of the cabinet has a positive swinging movement.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved sewingmachine cabinet, showing the compartments and top leaf open. Fig. 2 is a similar view in which the parts are closed. Fig. 3 is a plan view with the leaf open. Fig. 4 is a rear face view in which the parts are shown in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a transverse section showing the machine-base within the cabinet and the hinged leaf closed. Fig. 6 is a similar section in which the sewing-machine base is raised. Fig. 7 is a vertical section of the slidinghead,showing the location of the balls.

The top 1 has a center raised portion 2, and to the raised portion is hinged a leaf 3. The top and raised portions have an opening A of a size to receive a sewing-machine base 5.

To the under side of the top are secured a back 6 and ends 7. The ends have guides 8 on their outer faces, which support a movable compartment in a manner to permit it to draw out. The drawer 9 of this compartment has a bottom 29 and is open at the top, and the pocket 10 of this compartment has a bottom 30 and a side opening 11, both openings being closed when the compartment is moved in and open when drawn out by the pull 12.

To one of the ends at its front is pivoted a swinging compartment 13, having the receptacles 14, 15, and 16 for holding bobbins, needles, and small articles and when closed forms a portion of the front of the cabinet.

The main portion of the front of the cabinet consists of a leaf 17, hinged at its upper edge to the under face. of the top and swings inward.

To the inside of the back 6 of the cabinet are secured two vertical guideways 18, which serve to guide and support a sliding head 19, the head supporting a grooved roller 20. From the head extend two arms 21 and 22 and also two hinge-joints 23. The base 5 of a sewing-machine rests upon the free ends of the arms and is connected by the hinge-joints in a manner to permit the base to be raised in order that the operative parts of the machine located on the under face thereof may be inspected.

A groove-faced roller 24. has a pivotal connection with the back of the cabinet, its upper portion extending above the top in rear of the raised portion 2. A flexible connection 25 has one end connected to the rear edge of the hinged leaf 3, passing over the roller 24: under the roller 20, its other end connected to the under face of the top 1. By the closing movement of the hinged leaf 3 the sliding head 20 will descend in the guideways 18, carrying the sewing-machine base with it, and when the leaf is closed the sewing-machine will be within the cabinet below the top. In opening or raising the leaf 3 the flexible connection will raise the sliding head 20, also the sewing-machine base, and when the leaf is in the position shown at Fig. Athe hinged connection between the leaf and raised portions 22 is above the flexible connection. Consequently the sewing-machine base is held locked in a raised position.

A link 26 has one end pivotally connected with the arm 21 and its other end pivotally connected with the hinged front 17. As the head is raised and lowered the link connection will impart a positive swinging movement to the front 17, so that when the sewing-machine is lowered within the cabinet the hinged front 17 will present a solid front and when the machine is raised the front will be swung inward in'order that the attendant can properly operate the treadle.

The sliding head supports balls 27 at its upper edge in its front next the sewing-machine base and balls 28 at its lower edge next the back of the cabinet, and the weight of the sewing-m achine will hold the balls in contact with the gnideways, thus permitting the head to slide easily.

We claim as our invention-- 1. A sewing-machine cabinet composed of a top and ends, a single pair of guides supported by each end, one guide located directly above the other, a combined drawer and pocket for each end supported to slide between the guides, said drawer being provided with two separated bottoms to provide two compartments, one openat the top and the other open at the inside of the drawer next to the end of the cabinet, substantially as described.

2. A sewing-machine cabinet composed of a top and ends, said top extending beyond the ends, guides supported on the outside of each end, a combined drawer and pocket for each end supported to slide between the guides, each drawer being provided with two separated bottoms to provide two compartments, one open at the top and the other open at the inner side, said open portions of the drawers being covered by the top and ends respectively of the cabinet when the drawers are closed, substantially as described.

3. In a sewing-machine cabinet, the combination with a top having a leaf hinged thereto adapted to fold outward and be supported in ahorizontal plane, of vertical guideways secured to the back of the cabinet on the interior thereof, a cross-head movable between and supported at its opposite ends by said guideways, brackets carried by the crosshead and arranged to support a sewing-machine, a grooved roller journaled centrally on the cross-head, a second grooved roller journaled on a fixed pivot above, and slightly to one side of the roller on the cross-head, and a cord or chain connected at one end to the hinged leaf and at the other end to a fixed part adjacent tothe second-named roller, said cord or chain passing over the roller on the fixed pivot and under the roller on the cross-head, substantially as described. 40

ALFRED C. ABRAMS ON. W'ILLIAMv PERSON.

Witnesses:

A. O. BEHEL, E. BEHEL. 

